Monday, April 07, 2003
I need to write a couple of proposals and just can't get my act together. Started reading a book called "The French Mathematician". Have suffered from a total disconnect with math all my life but am convinced of the beauty and intrigue of numbers. People who can "see" proofs are fascinating ... the language/style is excessive and would have caused poor Strunk to have mad convulsions, but anyway, if I manage to get interested in mathematics as a result, it'll be well worth the single red note I paid for it.Back to form and function ... a couple of years ago, the web exploded with zillions of unfortunate Flash-based sites that should never ever have been FTPd onto a hosting server. Gyrating menus, hideous bouncing typography, repetitive sound-effects from hell, pathetic navigation - those were terrible times. Macromedia's killer product was battered and abused, earning the scorn of usability guru, Jacob Nielson ... it was sad because the product is capable of such lean vector-based output ...
More later ...
gotta go learn some math
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